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Encouragements to Missions. 
PROGRESS. 
‘WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT ?” 
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CARCELY one hundred years have elapsed 
since the organization of the first Protestant 
Foreign Missionary Society. Now there are over 
200 at work in different parts of the heathen 
world, with a force of over 6,000 foreign workers ¥ 


and over 30,000 native helpers, . occupying 
CONTAINING 20,000 


500 SEPARATE FIELDS 
MISSION STATIONS, In these stations there 
are 500,000 Sunday school scholars, an average 


of 25 to each station. There are 1,000,000 com- 
municants—an average of 50 to each station. 
There are also 2,000,000 adherents, who ar 
friends of the Christian faith—an average of 100 
to each station. 

Not far from 2,500,000 souls in Pagan ani 
Mohammedan lands are receiving Christian in- 
struction. The sum of over $11,000,000 is an- 
nually contributed to Foreign Missions. Thirty- 
one years ago there was not a Woman’s Foreig): 
Missionary Society in America. Now there are 
in Great Britain and America 19,500 Auxiliaries 
and 5,200 Bands, with an aggregate income o!/ 
$1,250,000. The twenty of these societies in 
the United States, managed and supported by 
women, support 757 missionaries. They contri 
buted $1,038,233 in 1888, and’eince their organi. 
zation $10,325,124. At the beginning of thi. 


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century the way of life could be studied by but But Ae 


one-fifth* ef the world’s population. “ Now it is 
translated into languages that make it accessible 
to 9-1oths of the inhabitants of the globe. For 


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3,000 years there existed but three ve._ons of the 
Holy Scriptures. Now they can be read in 350 of 
the 6,000 spoken languages. To-DAy the Bible 
is translated into 25 times as many languages as 
were spoken by the disciples on the Day of Pen- 
tecost. In 1804, there were in the world only 
5,000,000 Bibles; in 1880 there were in the 
hands of mankind 160,000,QO00 copies 
of the Sacred Word. 

A few years ago we were praying for open 
doors and asking for workers. Now the whole 
world is practically open to the Gospel, and there 
are more workers offering than the Church can 
send. ‘*The student volunteer movement,” 
which began at Northfield, Mass., in 1886, by 
the organization of a Mission Band numbering 
one hundred students, has marvellously grown 
until the number of “ volunteers” for 
foreign service, in America and Great Britain, 
NOW reaches nearly 5,OUQ young men 
and women. Thése ‘‘volunteers” have been 
instrumental in raising tor the foreign work nearly 
$50,000, a large proportion of which has been 
contributed by themselves, while about 200 have 
already gone out to the foreign field under the 
auspices of the various Mission Boards, upwards 
of 60 being supported by educational institutions 
in the United States and Canada, 

When we review the mission work of the last 
century, when we recall its humble beginnings 
and in many cases years of preparatory labor be- 
fore there were any visible fruits, when we con- 
sider the tremendous barriers, the stupendous 
opposition, the innumerable difficulties which 
have had to be me, and that upward of 10,000, - 
000 converts live, or have died, in the faith, and 
that buge systems of iniquity have fallen, and 
forces set in motion which, under God, are to 
evangelize and revolutionize the world, we can 
but humbly bow our heads and lift our hearts in 





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praise to Him by whose power and under whose 
authority these wonders have been accomplished. 





INDIA.—The Danes were the first European 
Protestants to send missionaries to India. They 
began work in 1705, and were joined in the mid- 
dle of the century by Schwartz, who lived on £48 
a year and dressed in dimity dyed black, occupy- 
ing an old building, large enough for only his bed 
and himself. He lived on rice and vegetables, 
and when he died, after forty-eight years of ser- 
vice, he left 10,000 converts and an influence for 
good that was not lost for many years. Then 
followed the quarto of noble Christian giants— 
Martyn, Carey, Marshman and Ward. With 
Carey began the present progressive march of 
Missions in India and the organization of the first 
Protestant Foreign Missionary Society. fle 
landed in India in 1793, amd after seven years of 
faithful and trying labor, baptized his first con- 
vert, Krishua Pal. The influence of Carey’s 3 
years’ service no man can estimate. With his- 
band of helpers he translated the 
Gospel into between 380 and 40 
different languages and thus brought it 
within the reach of 300,000,000 souls to whom it 
had been hitherto unknown. Where ninety years 
ago Carey was the only ordained Protestant mis- 
sionary there are now about 700. That first con- 
vert is Now followed by a host of Church mem- 
bers numbering 150,000. India has Now more 
nominal Christians than the combined populations 
of New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City. 

The ratio of growth in the Christian popula- 
tion of India was 53 per cént/ from 1851 to 1861; 
it leaped to 86 per cent. from 1871 to 1881. 
During the two decades from 1861 to 1881 the 
number of communicants have more than 
doubied in each decade. There were 
two societies at work in India in 1813, and in 


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1830 there were but nine; in 1887, they had 
increased: to 57 separate missions. From 1851 to 
1881 the native churches increased fifteen-fold, 
and the ordained pastors twenty-seven-fold. 
There are Now in India more than 70,000 
colleges, schools and institutions of learning, 
where 3,000,000 of the youths of India are being 
taught. In the mission day schools are gathered 
225,000 pupils, and in the Sabbath schools more 
than 100,000. The native churches in India 
number 4,000 congregations. There are over 
800 foreign missionaries, 500 native ordained 
ministers and 3,000 native.helpers. Many of the 
native churches in India are self-supporting. 
Their gifts put many of our enlightened western 
Christians to shame. A single church, 
whose members have 4 total income 
of $1,800, gives annually $40. of 
that sum for religious objects, a 
quarter of which is sel apart for the support of a 
native missionary in another district. 

Medical Missions in India are a powerful evan- 
gelizing agency. They are disarming the people 
of their anti-foreign prejudices and are preparing 
the way for the direct preaching of the Gospel 
among those who otherwise would not be reached. 
Upwards of 200,000 patients are annually treated 
in mission hospitals and dispensaries. The govern- 
ment, in appreciation of this work, has materially 
aided the missionaries by gifts of buildings and 
tracts of land, at the same time providing the 
supplies of several mission hospitals and, in some 
instances, paying the salaries of the missionary 
physicians, 

The Jndian WaXthman, referring to the pro- 
gress of missions said: ‘‘Seventy-five years ago 
the fires of the suttee were publicly blazing in 
the Presidency towns of Madras, Bombay and 
Calcutta, and all over India, in whick the 
screaming and struggling widow, in many 





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cases herself a mere child, was bound to 
the dead body of her husband and _ with 
him burned to ashes. Seventy-five years ago in- 
fants were publicly thrown into the Ganges as 
sacrifices to the goddess of the river. Seventv- 
five years ago young men and maidens, decked 
with flowers, were slain in Hindoo temples be- 
fore the hideous idol of the goddess Kali, or 
hacked to pieces on the meras, that their quiver- 
ing flesh might be given to propitiate the gods of . 
the soil. Seventy-five years ago the cars of the 
Juggernaut were rolling over India crushing hun- 
dreds of human victims annually beneath their 
wheels. Seventy-five years ago lepers were 
burned alive, devotees publicly starved them- 
selves to death, children brought their parents 
to the bank of the Ganges and hastened their 
death by filling their mouths with the sand and 
water of the so-called sacred river. Seventy-five 
years ago the swinging festivals attracted thou 
sands to see the poor writhing wretches with iron 
‘hooks thrust through the muscles of their back 
swung in mid air in honor of their gods. For 
all thane scenes that once disgraced 
India we may now look in vain.” 


BURMAH. The pioneer missionary was 
Adoniram Judson, ‘‘ The Apostle of Burmah,”’ 
who arrived in the East in 1813. Well may it be 
said of him, as of an earlier apostle, ‘‘In perils 
of robbers . . . . in perils by the heathen, 
in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness. 
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, 
in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and 
nakedness.” Released from<ja cruel imprisen- 
ment, after 20 years toil, he gave the Bible to the 
Burmese in their native tongue, and, with Mason, 
the ‘‘ Apostle to the Karens,” gave the Gospel to 
that people, seeing them converted by the thou- 
sands. Where 70 years ago there wm noi a 





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Christian, now, out of a population of 8,000,000, 
there are 100,000 Christians. The 
ee have now 50O Churches, largely 
self-supporting. The number of Karen 
churches, in 1883, was 479. Two-thirds of these 
churches maintain Christian schools, in which 
nearly 5,000 children and youth are taught. Mul- 
titudes are sharers of the Gospel’s benefits, and 
25,000 have been gathered into the Church. Al- 
ready about one-third of the Karen 
people are Christians, and 20,000 have 
fallen asleep in Jesus. 

SIAM AND LAOS.—The Medical Mis- 
sion was the golden key used by God in opening 
Siam to the Gospel. Dr. House was that 
honored instrument. The American Presbyter- 
ians have one of their most successful missions in 
Siam. The work of Medical Missionaries has been 
eminently fruitful in furnishing an open door for 
the direct preaching of the Gospel, and for their 
sake missionaries are everywhere tolerated. The 
king of Siam, the most progressive sovereign of 
Asia, next to the Mikado of Japan, favors the 
work of missions, and his gifts of money and land, 
amounting to several thousand dollars in value, 
for hospital and school work, speak in a 
,practical way of his appreciation of missions. 
Fifty years ago, Siam excluded all foreigners ; 
now she is in treaty relations with all Christian 
countries. In Siam and Laos, there are now, in 
all, 29 male and female missionaries, 32 native 
helpers, 12 churches, with a church membership 
of 1,000. There are 23 day-schools into which 
700 children have ‘seen gathered. There are 600 
children in the Sabbath school. 

OHIN A.—Robert Morrison, the last make 
of Morpeth, was the pioneer missionary to China, 
He entered Canton in 1807, employed by an 





American merchant, working by day for his em- 
ployer, and by night, by the light of his earthen 
lamp, seeking to give the Chinese the Gospel im 
their native tongue. In seven yearshe produced the 
first translation of the New Testament Scriptures, 
and the same year baptized his first convert. 
Joined by Wm. Milne, they succeeded, four years 
later, in giving the Chinese the whole Bible in 
their native tongne. Although Morrison entered 
. China in 1807, the country was practically closed 
until 1860, when the ‘‘ Treaty of Tientsin ” threw 
’ open to missionaries this vast empire with its 18 
great provinces and nearly 400,000,000 souls. 
At Morrison’s death, in 1834, there were only four 
converts and four Protestant missiona.**s in the 
whole empire; in 1843, they numbered, ?in all 
parts, 350; in 1853, 2,000; in 1864, 20,000 ; in 
1875, 25,000; and now we find Morrisons 
who gave last year $44,OCO for the 
spread of the Gospel in their own 
land. 

There are now 40 societies at work in China, 
with a staff of over 1,200 male and female mis- 
sionaries, and nearly 2,000 native helpers. There 
are more than 700 stations and out-stations, over 
20 hospitals and twice that number of dispensaries, 
where upwards of 175,000 out and in patients are 
annually treated and spoken to about Christ, 
15,000 pupils have been gathered into mission 
schools ; 500 English and American publications 
have already been translated into the Chinese 
language ; thousands have forsaken their idols ; 
16 out of the 18 provinces have permanent mission 
stations and missionaries are itinerating in the 
other two, while the whole=iegixe is undergoing 
a gradual change in its relation «, (Christéanity. 

‘* Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, 
these from the north and from the west; and 


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these from the land of Sinim®”’ (or China). (Isa. 
49: 12). 


CORBA.—A lard which ten years ago was 
unknown to the world is now open wide to the 
preacher of the Gospel. Here again God used a 
Medical Missionary, Dr Allen, in opening the 
door for missions. In 1882, a treaty of peace 
was made with the United States, and in 1884 
Dr. Allen entered. The king’s nephew, with - 
others, was injured in a riot at Seoul, the capital. 
The native doctors staunched their wounds with 
wax, and but for the timely intervention of Dr. 
Allen several would probably have died. The 
king, in appreciation of the service performed, 
encouraged the building of an hospital, which was 
put in charge of Dr. Allen, under the American 
Presbyterian Mission, with permission to ‘* heal ” 
and to ‘‘preach.” The first convert was baptized 
in 1886, and the first church formed, with ten 
members, in 1887. There are now 3 societies, 
with a dozen missionaries, at work in Corea. 
Copies of the Bible have been distributed every- 
where. There are now more than 100 Church 
members and applications for baptism coming in 
from all sides. Corea, with her 12,000,000 in- 
habitants, is calling loudly for workers. 


JAPAN—“‘The wonder of this age,” 
‘‘The greatest miracle of modern missions,”— 
slaughtered the early Roman Catholic Mission- 
aries, and for centuries prevented all foreigners 
from setting foot on her soil under penalty of 
death. As recently as 1850, Japan was hermetic- 
ally sealed againg'y tt missionaries, but in 1853 
she yielded to en nal power,” and in one day this 
empire, withoits 38,000,000 inhabitantr was 
thrown open to the Gospel and to western com- 
merce. ~ The first Protestant missionary land- 
ed in 1859, the first baptism took place in 1864; 





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the first Church was organized in 1872. Now 
there are 28 missionary societies at work, with a 
force of 443 male and female foreign missionaries, 
142 native ordained missionaries, 257 native 
helpers, 8 colporteurs, and 70 Bible women. 
There are 396:STATIONS AND OUT STATIONS, 
92 OF THE CHURCHES ARE SELF-SUPPORTING, 
and 157 partly so, with a TOTAL MEMBERSHIP 
OF 25,514, WHOSE GIFTS FOR ALL PURP: SES, 
IN 1888, AMOUNTED TO $48,340.93. The Sun 
day schools number 295, with 16,634 scholars in 
attendance. There are 14 theological schools with 
287 students, and 9,698 have been gathered into 
the missionary day schools. The translation of the 
New Testament was not completed until 1880, 
and the whole Bible at the beginning of 1888. 
A few months later one society had distributed 
Over 100,000 copies of the complete Bible, and 
previously, more than twice that number of the 
various parts. During the last five years, the 
number of Protestant missionaries nearly doubled 
and the number of native ministers trebled. In 
5 years, fom 1888 to 1888, the num- 
ber of church members has increased 
more than five-fold. The United Church 
of Christ in Tapan was formed by the union, in 
1877, of 8 churches with 623 members. There 
are now a total of 9,000. The increase in 1888 
was 1831. It has doubled in membership every 
three years. The number of converts in the mis- 
sion of the American Board has had a gain of 
2,801 in fifteen months, a most remarkable result, 
and only surpassed by the mission of that Board 
in the Sandwich Islands. In 1714, the heathen 
temples in Japan numbered “tiearly 400,000; in 
1885, the number was reduced to 57,842. 


TURKISH BMPIRH#.—Itis nearly six- 
ty years since work was begun at Constantinople. 
Owing to the difficulties in the way of reaching 





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the Moslems, partly because the name “Chris- 
tian” had become odious to them through 
the corruption of the nominally Christian sects in 
their midst, the work has been chiefly confined to 
the latter. A foundation has, however, been 
laid for a progressive movement that will, in the 
near future, break down all barriers and win that 
stronghold of Satan for Christ. 

In the Turkish Empire there are seven Chris- 
tian Colleges—two of the highest order; the one at 
Beirut (Syria) being a fully-equipped University. 
From the Mission presses at Beirut, millions of 
pages of the Bible and other Christion books find 
their way wherever the Arabic language is spoken, 
Several thousand of converts have also been re- 
ceived, and the work is in a most prosperous 
condition. 





PH &RSIA.—For more than fifty years Ameri- 
can Missionaries have labored in this memorable 
land, and the Presbyterians have strongly 
established themselves, their educational . and 
medical work being particularly famous, During 
the past eighteen years the number of converts 
has increased from 700 to about 2,300. 





AFRICA has an area three times as great 
as that of Europe. The pioneer missionary, 
Latimer Neville, prophesied Africa’s evangeliza- 
tion while the larger portion was yet marked on 
our maps ‘‘unexplored” or ‘‘sandy desert.” ‘*The 
idea of achain of stations will yet be taken up 
by succeeding generations and carried out,” said 
that indefatigable African missionary, Dr. Krapf.- 
The fulfilment of the first prophecy is rapidly 
coming to pass; while the latter has been 
literally realized. A chain of Mission Stations 
reach from the mouth of the Comgo to the 





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Equator, and Africa is beginning to surpass 
many other countries in her onward march 
out of centuries of midnight darkness. The 
loyal service and the heroic death of thetoil-worn 
and self-denying Livingstone, have set in motion 
many mighty forces for the evangelization of 
Africa. The martyr blood of the daring and de- 
voted Bishop Hannington and scores of other 
consecrated missionaries is to-day crying out for 
the salvation of Africa’s benighted millions. 
Stanley’s explorations have opened whole regions 
for the Christian Church to occupy. Mission- 
aries are now scattering everywhere preaching 
the Word. Sierra Leone is another of the mar- 
vels of modern misssons. The most degraded 
and licentious of earth’s inhabitants in this dis- 
trict was, in the short space of seven years, 
transformed into an active and industrious settle- 
ment. ‘‘Instead of the thorn has come up the 
fir tree.” Seventy-five years ago a Christian was 
not to be found in that whole district, In 1868 
the number of nominal Christians was estimated 
at 80,000, of whom 20,000 were communicants. 
They were then supporting their own native pas- 
tors and had already begun the work of sending 
the Gospel beyond the Colony’s limits. The first 
Christian church in the Congo Free State was 
organized in 1888. The converts in the Congo 
Mission now number about 1,200. THE SCRIP- 
TURES HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED INTO 66 OF 
THE 153 AFRICAN DIALECTS. There are now at 
- work in Africa 34 societies with a force of over 600 
ordained foreign missionaries, 107 lay preachers 
and helpers, 415 female and 31 medical mission- 
aries and 10,000 native pastors. The church 
members number over 80,000, and the adherents 
400,000. Africa may be said to be open wide to 
the missionary of the cross, and a voice from on 
high is crying, ‘‘ whom shall I send and who will 
go for us ?” 


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MADAGASCAR is still another of the 


missionary miracles of this age. ‘The first mis- 
sion was established by the London Missionary 
Society in 1816. In 1828 there were 32 schools 
and 4,000 scholars connected with the mission. 
The rapid progress of the mission work awakened 
hostility on the part of the natives, who finally 
succeeded in arousing the vengeance of the hostile 
queen Ranavalona. She determined to treat as 
criminals all who refused to worship idols, and 
ordered the missionaries to leave the island. The 
Bible, however, was translated, circulated and 
left to do its work, while the human agents were 
driven away. Severe persecution thereafter burst 
upon the infant church, in which hundreds of 
native Christians were either sold into slavery, 
chained together and sent to the fever districts, 
stoned or burnt to death, or dashed to pieces over 
a precipice. When the missionaries left the 
island there were but 300 Christians in full com- 
munion. Upwards of 1,600 died in the persecu- 
tion ; but so mightily had grown the word of God 
and prevailed,that there wer ‘740 Church 
members and 7,000. adherents 
to welcome them back. To-pay Mada- 
gascar is an evangelizing centre. With not more 
than 40 European missionaries, there are in all 
over 1,000 ordained native pastors, 5,000 native 
preachers, 150,000 Church members, 450,000 ad- 
herents and 1,300 schools with 125,000 scholars. 


ISLANDS OF THE SHA.—‘<Poty- 
NESIA,” says Dr. A. T. Pierson, *‘has been the 
scene of gospel triumphs which for character, 
frequency and rapidity, scarce admit of com- 
parison. . . . . . The annals of the gospel in 
the South Seas should be written in starlight. 
The story of the SANDWiIcH ISLANDS is too 
familiar for repetition. Within fifty years an 
entire people, saved from extinction, took their 





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place in the great brotherhood of Christian na- 
tions.” Already the Sandwich Islanders are 
spreading the gospel among other islands of the 
sea. In 1873 the native churches became inde- 
pendent, bearing all expenses except those of the 
few remaining American missionaries. IN 1870 
THE CHURCH MEMBERS NUMBERED 15,000, who 
raised nearly $25,000 for home work and $6,500 
for foreign missions. 

Within one year after John Williams landed in 
Karatonga the whole population of the HARVEY 
GxouP, numbering7,000 souls, had thrown away 
their idols, and soon after 70,000 people in the 
SAMOA GROUP, through his instrumentality, were 
gathered into Christian Schools. The Samoans 
have now their own theological seminary, in 
which regular missionary prayer meetings are 
held. The native Christians in Samoa contri- 
bute $6,000 annually toward the work of the 
London Missionary Society. In the FRIENDLY 
IsLANDS, fifty years ago there was not a native 
Christian ; Now there are over 30,000 church 
members, who give annually more than $15,000 
for religious objects. Here one cf the largest 
congregations in the world gathers regularly for 
Christian worship. 

Inthe church at Aneityum in the NEw HEBRIDES, 
the memorial slab of John Geddie bears the follow- 
ing suggestive inscription recording the experi- 
ence of that noble missionary : ‘‘When he landed 
here, in 1848, there were no Christians, and when 
he left here, in 1872, there were no heathens.” 

The story of Fiji is a dreadful record. Human 
language cannot furnish words sufficiently expres- 
sive to describe their deeds of darkness. ‘T'o- 
day the Fijians are a Christian 
people. Out of a population of 120,000, up- 
wards of 100,000 are Church members, including 
40,000 Sabbath school scholars. 

NEW ZEALAND was among the most ferocious 


ef cannibal islands. In 1860, after 33 years of 
service, the Wesleyans numbered 5,000, with 200 
Sabbath schools where 7,000 children were 
taught, and 12,000 were regular attendants at 
places of worship. The native clergy is support- 
ed entirely by native contributions. 

New GUINEA is to-day one of the interesting 
points in the missions of the world. A few years 
ago the whole people were the worst of cannibals. 
Now many of them are receiving the Gospel, and 
a change is rapidly coming over the whole island. 


‘** And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art 
worthy to take the book, and to open the seals 
thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed 
us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and 
tongue, and people, and nation.” 





Need for Missions. 


*“The harvest truly is plenteous, but the la- 
borers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of © 
the harvest, that He will send forth laborers into 
His harvest.” Matt. 9: 37, 38. 


INDIA.—The population of India is over 
260,000,000. If each person in India could re- 
present a letter in our English Bible, 70 Bibles’ 
would be required to represent the entire popula- 
tion, while the Christians could be represented by 
the prophesy of Isaiah. 

India has 21,000,000 wailing widows and 50,- 
000,000 persecuted Zenana prisoners, with but 
one woman to every one hundred thousand, to 

oint them to the Lamb of God. The children of 
ndia, four deep and with a walking space of two 
feet each, would make a column 5,000 miles long. 
40,000,000 of these are still waiting to be taught 

There is only one ordained missionary in India, 
to every $50,000 of the population. One to every 
six of the men, women and children on the face of 
the globe lives in India. 800 priceless souls, for 


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wMAD ,; 
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whom Jesus died, are passing to Christless graves 
every hour in India. Intemperance is becoming 
a widespread curse, so much so, that the heathen 
Natives are petitioning a Christian Government 
(the British) to have the traffic abolished. Zng- 
lish manufactured Idols.are constantly being sent 
to India for use in that country. The ‘‘ Caste 
system is a master-piece of Satan. India is al- 
ready flooded with infidel publications; of the 
600 newspapers there, less than half a dozen favor 
Christianity. Millions of tracts are being cir- 
culated in opposition to Christian missions. 
Thus Western ‘‘Advanced Thought,” is used by 
the natives, in their desperation, to frustrate the 
purpose of Christian missions—a not at all un- 
favorable sign, but showing all the greater need 
for speedy reinforcements and that on a hundred- 
fold larger scale than anything undertaken 
hitherto. 


CHINA’S population is estimated at 382,- 
000,000. China holds one third of the entire 
heathen world, and one man in every four on this 
planet isa Chinaman. Only one in 10,000 has 
ever heard. of Christianity, There are still in 
China 1,000 counties, and an almost countless 
number of cities, towns and villages, wherein the 
Gospel has never been preached. Whole pro- 
vinces, containing from 5,000,000 to 30,000,000 . 
souls each, have scarcely been trod by Christian 
feet. 

Could China’s population be equally apportion- 
ed to the present staff of missionaries, male and 
female, each would have a parish of 350,000 
souls. 1,400 Chinese have passed into Christless 
graves during the past sixty minutes. 30,000 will 
to-day be ushered into eternity ! 

The opium curse. ‘I have,” said J. Hudson 
Taylor, ‘‘labored in China and for China for 
over 30 years,and I am profoundly convinced 


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that opium is doing more evil in China in a week 
than the missions are doing good in a year. 
After 80 years of contact with England there are 
32,000 Christians, for which we may be thankful, 
and 150,000,000 opium smokers, for which we 
may hang our heads in shame. The slave trade, 
the liquor traffic, the licensing of immorality— 
these were bad enough, but the opium curse is 
the sum of all villany.”” Twice the population of 
all Canada departs the land of Sinim annually 
without God and without hope. 1,000,000 
new graves every month. Can you realize it? 
There are four times as many children born of 
heathen parents in China alone every year than 
there are souls born into the kingdom of God in 
all lands, and this after a century of Protestant 
missions. 

MONGOLIA, EASTERN TURKESTAN 
AND THIBET havea combined population ot 
15,000,000, and 10t one. missionary to every 
2,000,000! Thibet is the ‘Throne of Buddhism,” 
and in it there are 60,000 Buddhist priests, 
thousands of whom are sent out from Lhassa into 
all parts of Asia in the interest of that religion. 
One monastery alone contains 5,000 priests, As 
yet these 8,000,000 souls in Thibet, so far as we 
know, are without a worker for Christ, 


ANNAM’S 12,000,000 are without a ray of 
light. . ie 

AFGHANISTAN AND BELUCHISTAN 
have a combined population of 3,500,000 and no 
Protestant missionary. 


RUSSIA in Asia has a population of — 16,- 
000,00e benighted and neglected souls with 
scarcely a witness for Christ. 


ARABIA’S 6,000,000 has but four Protestant 
missionaries, while the opening for the entrance 
of the gospel is most inviting. 


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PERSIA, with her 7,500,000 immortal souls, 
has only one ordained missionary (foreign and 
native) for every 125,000 people. 


- TURKEY.—Two-thirds of the 21,000,000 
inhabitants of this Empire yet firmly resist the 
claims of the Gospel, while only a few thousands 
of the other third have received it. 


COREA hungers for ‘‘ The Bread of Life,” 
and there is not one missionary to every I, 000,000 
of the population. 

JAPAN, with all her light and progress has 
still miles and miles of unbroken heathenism. 
Of the population of 38,000,000, not 5,000,000 
have ever heard the Gospel. The land is being 
flooded with sceptical and ‘‘ modern thought ” 
literature, while the heathen religions are 
strengthening their. forces to defeat the efforts of 
Christian missionaries, Japan has still but one 
foreign missionary, male and femi.z, to every 
85,000 souls. 

AFRICA.—Here a population equal to 24% 
times the population of the United States is 
still unreached by Christian missionaries. 

In Algeria and Tunzs, within a week’s journey 
from London, there are millions of souls who 
have never yet heard the Gospel. 

Morocco has an estimated population of over 
6,000,000 and only about a score of workers to 
point these deluded Arabs to the Lamb of God. 

Abyssiniaand Liberia have 4,000,000 darkened 
souls, and scarcely a dozen missionaries, 

The Great Sahara has 3,000,000 more, and not 
a witness for the risen Christ. 

Central Africa, with an area ten times that of 
Germany, twenty times as populous as New York 
State, and more densely peopled than any part of 
America, has practically only been touched on its 
borders. Zhe Great Soudan has 60,000,000 
precious souls within tts dssky berders, and 


scarcely a representative for the King of glory. 
Could Africa’s whole population be equally appor- 
tioned to the present staff of missionaries, lay and 
ordained, each would have a parish of 250,000 
souls to care for, and there would only be one 
missionary to each dialectic lan- 
guage. 

Ethiopia would stretch out her hands unto 
God, but professedly Christian nations are pre- 
venting this by sending to the dark continent 
over 8,000,000 gallons of rum annually, The 
liquor is the vilest adulteration, and the natives 
have actually used it for turpentine. For every 
missionary who goes to Africa there is sent 
70,000 gallons of rum. Liquor is causing more 
destruction in Africa in a single day than the 
missionaries can repair in months, or even years, 

The slave trade is another cursed barrier to the 
entrance of the Gospel. 500,000 NEGROES ARE 
ANNUALLY SOLD INTO SLAVERY. Stanley, in 
his journey across the continent, met a company 
of 5,000 fugitives escaping from slave stealers, 
and on another occasion a band of slave stealers 
with 2,300 women and children, for whose 
capture they had plundered thousands of homes, 
murdering over 3,000 persons. 


FRANCE.—McAll declares that there are 
hundreds of thousands in Paris itself who have 
literally never had a Bible in their hands or have 
come within the sound of the preaching of the 
‘* justification by faith.” 

SOUTH AMERICA has but one Protestant 
missionary to every 400,000 of her deluded and 
ignorant souls. 


‘“How shall they hear without a preacher?” 





In almost every foreign field, notwithstanding 
all that has been accomplished, laborers are very 
few in comparison with the harvest to be gathered. 


In heathen lands there is an area larger than that 
of North America, and more populous, as yet un- 
occupied by any Protestant missionary, Chris- 
tian converts among the heathen are multiplying 
nearly four times as fast as in the United States, 
but while we have been making 3,000,000 con- 
verts to Christianity, the heathen population of 
the worid has increased 200,000,000. Two-thirds 
of 1,181,0900,000 heathen, or one-half of the whole 
human race, have never heard the gospel. 


“‘How shall they believe in Him of whom they 
have not heard ?” 


IN HEATHEN LANDS THERE IS ONLY ONE 
ORDAINED MISSIONARY TO EACH 320,000 SOULS, 
including lay workers one to every 165,000 souls, 
and, including native helpers also, one to each 
25,000, and there is only one Christian to each 
1,500 persons. 


** How shall they preach except they be sent?” 


In the United States there is one ordained 
minister to each 800 of the population, one lay 
worker to each 48, and one church member to 
each 5. FOR EVERY MINISTER SENT FROM THE 
UNITED STATES TO A THOUSAND MILLIONS OF 
HEATHEN, THERE ARE 77 TIMES AS MANY TO A 
POPULATION OF SIXTY MILLIONS, who have all 
heard the gospel again and again. Only one 
out of every 5,000 Christians in America goes 
into foreign work 

Europe spends goo times more money and 
gives 333 times more men to support the stand- 
ing army than she gives to carry on the Lord’s 
war among the heathen. 

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire- 
land can spend annually $620,000,000 on drink, 
$85,000,000 on tobacco, $62,500,000 on amuse- 
ments, while she gives but $6,250,000 to carry 
the gospel to the heathen. $45,000 only of the 
latter sum is given by the 7,000 titled nodslit- 


including all the royal family, an amount that 
would not half support thetr hounds, to say no- 
thing of the efidless sums spent on horse racing 
and other sports. We are told to freely give 
because we have freely received. ‘‘ There is that 
scattereth and yet increaseth.” 

The wealth of church members in the United 
States is estimated at $11,078,840, 000, with a 
daily increase of $1,360,000, after paying all liv- 
ing expenses, luxuries, ornaments, gifts, etc., yet 
only one-sixteenth of one cent in each dollar of 
the total wealth, or the increase of four days, is 
annually given for the spread of the gospel in 
heathen lands. The United States spend an- 
nually $900, 000,000 on drink, $600, 000,000 on to- 
bacco, $400,000,000 on popular amusements, and 
$25,000,000 for ‘kid gloves and ostrich feathers, 
a total and systematic voluntary offering of 
$1,925,000,000 for these ruining agencies and 
useless ornamentations, while there is given but a 
rSoth part of that sum for the elevating and life- 
ervine work of Home and. Foreign Missions. 
Only two per cent. of all the Church’s contri- 
butions in the United States is given to evan- 
gelize two-thirds the population of the world. 
An average of $7 isannually given by each church 
member to evangelize and Christianize 60,000,- 
ooo enlightened souls at home, while there is 
given but forty cents each for the evangelization 
of 1,18I,000,000 benighted heathen in foreign 
lands. ‘‘ The field is the world,” and we are 
commanded to ‘‘preach the gospel to every crea- 
ture,” YET LESS THAN ONE-NINTH OF A CENT 
A DAY PER CHURCH MEMBER, OR ONE CENT IN 
NINE DAYS, IS GIVEN TO EVANGELIZE THOSE 
WHO §TILL SIT IN DARKNESS, while fifty times 
that amount is daily spent for each Pethnny in the 
Unitec States for tobacco and strong drinks We 
are commanded to “teach all nations,” yet omly 
one-third of a cent a year ts etven tn the United 


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States for each heathen to instruct them in the 
‘“way of life ;’ and instead of increasing, the ° 
amount contributed per church member for this 
purpose is decreasing, although the aggregate 
amount, owing to increase in membership, is 
gradually becoming greater. 

Nine-tenths of atl contributions to foreign mts- 
stons ave siven by one-tenth of the Church mem- 
bershi~, while only half of the member- 
ship give anything. 





‘What we could do if we would.” 


**T can do all things through Christ which 
strengtheneth me.” 

‘* Without me ye can do nothing.” 

If we gave one worker out of every 50 Church 
members in the United States and Canada, we 
would have 500,000 foreign missionaries, or by 
sending one minister in ten to work where the 
need is 500 times greater than that at home, we 
would have 8,oo0 ordained missionaries, instead 
of the present fragmentary force of about 1,400. 
A systematic contribution of five cents a week 
from each church member would bring tuto the 
treasury $31,000,000 annually, One-tenth of 
the Church membership’s annual increase of 
wealth would put 12,000 more missionaries in the 
field at once. 

If each Church member made it his or her 
business to give the Gospel to twenty persons 
annually in heathendom, five years would not 
have elapsed until every creature on earth would 
have heard the glad tidings of salvation. 

)The late Earl of Shaftesbury said; ‘‘It has 
been in the power of those who hold the truth, 
having means, knowledge and opportunity enough 
to have evangelized the globe fifty times over.” 

The Rev. Dr. Barrows of Chicago in a sermon 
preached Feb. 21, 1886, said:—-‘‘ If Christians 


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“gpent every cent of wages, salary and income on 
themselves, and gave to missions only one cent 
on a dollar of their real and personal property, 
their contribution would be $87,284,000 instead 
of $5,500,000. The luxury, extravagance and 
unfaithfulness of God’s people must be removed 
or our nation is doomed.” 

A Missionary of the Baptist Board just going to 
Japan, who is to be supported by a single Church 
in Illinois, asks if it would not be quite as well 
for many churches to sustain each a missionary in 
the foreign field, as to have a thousand dollar 
choir singing in an unknown tongue? 

Hon. Ion Keith Falconer, the late philan- 
thropist and missionary said: ‘‘ While vast con- 
tinents are shrouded in almost utter darkness, and 
hundreds of millions suffer the horrors of heathen- 
ism or Islam the burden of proof lies upon you 
to show that the circumstances in which God has 
placed you were meant by Him to keep you out 
of the foreign mission field.” 

**Tf thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn 
unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; 
if thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not 
He that ‘pondereth the heart consider it? and He 
that keepeth thy soul doth not He know it? And 
shall not He reward every man according to his 
works ?” Prov. 24: II, 12. 


NC eee 


The great demand for the former edition of 
this pamphlet well justifies the publication ofa 
second edition, revised and enlarged, with later 
statistics. This the »ompiler has prepared on 
his way to India, ...Urning the manuscript to 
America with the hope that it may be as greatly 
used of God as the former edition which, in its 
circulation and usefulness, has far surpassed all 
expectation. W. J. W. 

SANGLI, INDIA, Dec. 17, ’89. 


